fuguelike
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a word derived from
fugue.
fuguenouna polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or more themes, which are enunciated by several voices or parts in turn, subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.
Example Sentences
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In a fuguelike scene, Edith is “on fire and still alive, when I knew I would see the other side, and you opened the mask. Behind it, appalling, extracting endlessness.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
And before you know it “Transcription” has turned from a wartime spy yarn into a fuguelike meditation on the fungibility of female identity.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
Mr. Fenton and Mr. Strickland, who riffs on nature documentary in a fuguelike stretch of his “Berberian Sound Studio,” cleanly blend the stage and superimpositions into one vaulted canvas of swirling color and gesture.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2014
But as the sonic violence takes its toll on him, the film’s culture-clash humor gives way to an uncanny fuguelike seepage between reality and artifice.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2013
Essays impersonating an autobiography; six chapters of sad, fuguelike repetition.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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